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Structured-Data > Microdata > Schema > Article > Author Itemscope > Properties > Google Validation Error

I am developing my own site locally. This is my first site so I am a relative 'noob'.

I have begun the process of marking up my site with the microdata format using the schema.org vocabulary.

I am using Google's structured data tester to test my microdata markup.

On a webpage I have marked up an article.

THE PROBLEM

I am getting errors for all properties for a person itemscope successfully connected to the article itemscope. It does not matter how the person is linked, whether as author or creator or otherwise.

For example, if I link a person to the article using the author property and try to then mark up their name with the name property, it gives a red error roughly like so:

! http://www.example.com/name: Name

Where the property name is the cited in a url/property format, and where 'Name' is the property value I actually want.

If I then click on the error message, it says:

The property http://www.example.com/name is not recognised by Google for an object of type Thing.

It is otherwise:

But it just doesn't recognise the properties of the person.

MARKUP SAMPLE

Here is a sample of how I am marking it up:

<html>

...

<div itemprop="hasPart" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Article">

    <h1 itemprop="headline name">
        Awesome Things
    </h1>

    <div itemprop="articleBody">
        Blah blah blah  ... FLUFFY KITTENS ... blah blah blah ... DONUTS ... blah blah blah ... COFFEE!!! ...

        AUTHOR:                     
        <span itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemptype="https://schema.org/Person">
            <span itemprop="name">
                Joe Blogs-a-Lot
            </span>                 
        </span>

    </div>

...

</div>
</html>

TRIED

I have tried testing with alternate properties with person as an expected type (author and creator). Same result.

I have also tried wrapping person itemscope around the properties, and using itemref and ID to target the values. This works, but has the downside of adding those values to properties in common with the article. So, for example, the article gets the additional name value of Joe Blogs-a-Lot - which isn't correct.

INVESTIGATIONS

I have had a bit of a look-see but couldn't quite find a specific answer - which surprised me.

I did notice that there were reports of issues with the testing tool. For example, I note this answer from the AWESOME CONTRIBUTOR in this area, the mighty @unor. If you see this, Unor, thanks for all the help you have provided to so many people here about this stuff. You rock.

THE ACTUAL QUESTION

Am I doing something dumb (a distinct possibility from past experience), or is this an issue with the tester?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2310

Answers (1)

unor
unor

Reputation: 96597

Your markup sample contains a typo:

itemptype="https://schema.org/Person"

should be

itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"

Unfortunately, the Google Structured Data Testing Tool doesn’t report such errors. (And they shouldn’t have interpreted the property name as the URL http://www.example.com/name, because an item without a type could have a proprietary item property name, which would not be a URL.)

On a side note: You might want to use http instead of https for the Schema.org URLs.

Upvotes: 1

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